The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . or who their friends may be I cannot quite remember . .There were fiveDropt dead beside me in the trench—and threeWhispered their dying messages to me . . This is a new note, making cheap the sounding brass andtinkling cymbals of Rudyard Kipling, and even strangelyunreal the dignity and pathos of John Masefield. This, Iventure to say, is the war poetry of the future. WilfredWilson Gibson has in this last book opened a new page ofliterature. Alone of the poets this day, he has seen to theheart of things in battle. Under the impact of the greatestcrisis in hi
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . or who their friends may be I cannot quite remember . .There were fiveDropt dead beside me in the trench—and threeWhispered their dying messages to me . . This is a new note, making cheap the sounding brass andtinkling cymbals of Rudyard Kipling, and even strangelyunreal the dignity and pathos of John Masefield. This, Iventure to say, is the war poetry of the future. WilfredWilson Gibson has in this last book opened a new page ofliterature. Alone of the poets this day, he has seen to theheart of things in battle. Under the impact of the greatestcrisis in history, he has been not stunned to silence or babblingsong, but awakened to understanding and sober speech, andthereby has proved his genius. The arrival in and tour through this country of such aman as Mr. Gibson is an occasion of great moment. Loversof literature will be quick to do him honor. But let not theseoutdo the leaders of social change and the seekers after anend to war, for whom this man is at once seer and CHRISTMAS ON THE ISLANDOF CULION ON the island of Culion, some twodays trip by water south of Ma-nila and the Philippine Islands, livethirty-seven hundred lepers. Last yearthey had a Christmas. The WomansClub of Manila formed its committee,sent out appeals for aid, and gifts weresent to the whole colony, with some spe-cial articles asked for in pathetic notesfrom the lepers. Two years ago this same club sent adelegation of women, ten Americansand one Filipino, to Culion to look overthe situation and report. One does notrub shoulders with living death in itsmost heart-rending form for noth-ing, writes Bessie Dwyer to theSurvey. The womans club has many otheractivities. Miss Dwyer, herself a mem-ber, writes that one of the first reformsundertaken which she, as chairman ofthe penology committee, brought to passand which was suggested to her throughan article in the Survey, was the ap-pointment of three nplice matrons. Each year a new day nursery hasbeen e
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